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Your task in order to complete this Kata is to write a function which formats a duration, given as a number of seconds, in a human-friendly way. | |
The function must accept a non-negative integer. If it is zero, it just returns "now". Otherwise, the duration is expressed as a combination of years, days, hours, minutes and seconds. | |
It is much easier to understand with an example: | |
``` | |
format_duration(62) # returns "1 minute and 2 seconds" | |
format_duration(3662) # returns "1 hour, 1 minute and 2 seconds" | |
``` | |
Note that spaces are important. | |
# Detailed rules | |
The resulting expression is made of components like 4 seconds, 1 year, etc. In general, a positive integer and one of the valid units of time, separated by a space. The unit of time is used in plural if the integer is greater than 1. | |
The components are separated by a comma and a space (", "). Except the last component, which is separated by " and ", just like it would be written in English. | |
A more significant units of time will occur before than a least significant one. Therefore, 1 second and 1 year is not correct, but 1 year and 1 second is. | |
Different components have different unit of times. So there is not repeated units like in 5 seconds and 1 second. | |
A component will not appear at all if its value happens to be zero. Hence, 1 minute and 0 seconds is not valid, but it should be just 1 minute. | |
A unit of time must be used "as much as possible". It means that the function should not return 61 seconds, but 1 minute and 1 second instead. Formally, the duration specified by of a component must not be greater than any valid more significant unit of time. | |
For the purpose of this Kata, a year is 365 days and a day is 24 hours. |
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